Oh, how I wish it weren’t so. Wish you could just push aside all those fears and hurts; regrets and false moves. Wish you could hide them in the back of your closet alongside all that other stuff you own but would rather forget–––like camping gear and that very odd hat you bought two summers ago. But it is doesn’t work that way and no amount of wishing will make it so. Simply put: You got to feel to heal.

But wait a minute. What’s that you say? Denial is working just fine, thank you very much! Well, maybe it is…for now. Maybe you can hold on and out for a little bit longer, but eventually, denial will come looking for you, wanting his due. And if denial and his thug friends have to track you down, well, it won’t be pretty my friend. No siree. It will NOT be pretty.

Fine, you say, but what the heck does this have to do with my business, anyway? Unfinished business effects your business––that’s just the way it works. As much as we’d like to believe that we can compartmentalize, we can’t––there is interrelatedness in everything we think/feel/do. Derail yourself; and in time, your business will follow.

So you can do this one of two ways––on your own terms, and in your own way….Or, you can fall prey to those cosmic forces that will even the score in ways that are infinitely less subtle; less gentle than if you head them off at the pass. Either way, you’re gonna have to deal.

But you get to decide: Are you going to make friends with your past (heal it, purge it) or are you going to let it rob you of your future? One of the two of you ain’t getting outta here alive. It’s your choice. Him or you?